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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

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Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Change Wording on GDPS Message GEO525A

When using the CAPACITY ACTIVATE script statement with PROMPT, please reword the WTOR to reflect the same nomenclature used in IBM HMC and Capacity on Demand User's Guide
about 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Planned for future release

Enhance length of command processing line to a number > 217 chars

We have written several long pipes within the command processing entries that have gone longer than 217 characters - even with using every synonym available. We have had to use creative ways to pass the results of one command line down to become i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Replace IGYCDOPT - Compiler options - with a regular options file

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
about 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Move the options in FMN2POPT - FM/Db2 options module - to a regular parameter file

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
about 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Completion of Encryption statistics from SMF113 into TDS/iZDS

We started the use of encryption, and we would complete the currently existing informations inside TDS Tables. We need to add the following fields coming from SMF133 subtype 1 CSType 3 :extended counters fom 64 to 127.This should give some materia...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Add the support of required field in APIS Body

We need to force APIs consummer to provide mandatory fields in the JSON body of an APIS.This is really important for APIS that use a MQ service because in this case we have no way to check fields before the message is PUT in the queue by the servi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

IMS transactions abends info in the e3270ui

We need in the e3270ui a workspace where we could see information about abended transactions and abend details including process region, abend code, transaction name, abend date/time,..
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration